 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1976 - 118 pages
...interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession. Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1976 - 876 pages
...ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession. Whenever, by priority of j>osses.sion, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and ace-rued, and the xium> are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions... | |
 | Lawrence Rosen - 244 pages
...use of water on public lands, including those in the territory of Montana. The Act declared "[t]hat whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1973 - 1390 pages
...location law". Its Section 9 provides the classic miner's rights "grandfather clause". It prescribes: That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged - 11 by the local customs, lavs, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested... | |
 | Walter Prescott Webb - 1959 - 544 pages
...Intentions of becoming citizens. The ninth section reads: 1 Kinney, Law of Irritation, Vol. I. Sect. 600. Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have tested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1982 - 1274 pages
...the right tc mine, but the water rights were seen to be a local problem. The UĞ provided, "Whenver, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water...and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1982 - 1296 pages
...part with mining claims. One section of this Act of 1866 dealt with water rights. It simply provided: whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agriculture, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and... | |
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That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts,... 
